On 8 December 2010 14:11, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi Reuben, > > I've fixed the version.c and bootstrap problems, but I don't think we > ever settled on the right way to deal with not having `program_name` > defined at build time. > > If you are on a glibc system, I think the library provides the necessary > symbol and you should be able to build a working libposix from the topic > branch after a git pull. Otherwise you'll have to link in the progname > module, or similar to resolve it... until we come up with a blessed > method for dealing with it properly.
Since I'm using glibc, I don't mind, but why is it a problem for a library? Doesn't it just place a requirement on the program linking against it, in the same way that the C runtime system does on main? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
